Statues discovered underneath Vietnamese temple

Four statues were found in central Quang Binh Province during an excavation conducted for the restoration of a 700-year-old Buddhist pagoda.

The statues, three wooden and one bronze, were found under the foundation of the ancient Hoang Phuc Pagoda in the province’s My Thuy Commune. These depicted men wearing feudal Mandarin-style clothes with complicated carvings.

Each wooden statue weighed approximately 40kg and was measured to be 50cm tall. The bronze statue was smaller, weighing only 3kg.